The movement for “common sense” over dangerous activism scratched another tally in the win column when a coach and former volleyball player weighed in on U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe’s “absurd” argument.
(Video: Fox News)
Alphabet activists like Rapinoe have continued to trot out their feelings-based position on the matter of men with gender dysphoria competing against women at any level. To counter that, former Division I volleyball player, current coach and spokeswoman for the Independent Women’s Forum Adriana McLamb joined “Fox & Friends” to bring reason to the table.
As co-host Brian Kilmeade pointed out, in a June 2022 Time magazine interview Rapinoe had argued, “I would also encourage everyone out there who is afraid someone’s going to have an unfair advantage over their kid to really take a step back and think what are we actually talking about here. We’re talking about people’s lives. I’m sorry, your kid’s high school volleyball team just isn’t that important. It’s not more important than any one kid’s life.”
McLamb hit back at that and said, “I think it’s actually kind of absurd because we do care, especially as a volleyball player. We very much do care about your daughter’s high school volleyball team. Especially in the case of Payton McNabb, who actually testified this week in North Carolina, who was severely concussed and injured by a biological man on the other side of a net. So we very much do care because this is not just about it being unfair for female athletes, but we’re getting to the point that’s unsafe.”
Wednesday, as reported, McNabb told her story of being “severely injured in a high school volleyball game by a transgender athlete on the opposing team. I suffered from a concussion and a neck injury that to this day I am still recovering from. Other injuries I still suffer from today include impaired vision, partial paralysis on my right side, constant headaches, as well as anxiety and depression.”
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“My ability to learn, retain, [and] comprehend has also been impaired, and I require accommodations at school for testing because of this,” McNabb went on.
Even without the physical danger posed to women forced to compete against men, McLamb noted the obvious differences that sports have been adapted for.
“I think it’s common sense,” she said. “In the sport of volleyball, the position I play … the male side is an average of over six feet tall. I’m five-four. I would never be able to compete against a biological male.”
“There’s reasons why the net is higher,” the coach continued. “There’s a difference in baseball and softball fields. And there’s a reason Title IX was fought so, so hard for 50 years ago, so we had these separate categories, so we can all play on a fair playing field.”
The strong positions from McLamb and McNabb come as former college swimmer Riley Gaines has continued to bring awareness to the issue. She also recently called out Rapinoe’s absurdity when she reacted to the soccer player’s push to have lawmakers work toward allowing men compete in women’s sports.
“I can respect opinions that differ from my own and everyone is entitled to think/speak independently,” Gaines tweeted, “but I can’t help but think Megan Rapinoe would genuinely shiv any male who tried to take her spot on the US Women’s National Team.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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